![]() ![]() Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.Īs a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."Īn escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Now a major television series from Apple TV+ starring Charlie Hunnam! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Archibald finds himself on a thrilling adventure full of medieval magic, mysterious symbols, and the strangest beasts, while Hailee-who witnessed her brother’s disappearance-embarks on a daring quest to find him. ![]() One day, as he's exploring the cavernous house, he finds a curious globe that whisks him away to a secret world, hidden for 500 years. Now he has to deal with hairless dolls in the library, weird stone creatures on the roof, and a spooky forest at the edge of the backyard. But these turn out to be the least of Archibald's problems. Things get worse when his parents move the family from London to his grandmother’s creepy manor in the English countryside. Īrchibald is a risk-averse boy with quirks that earn him plenty of eye-rolls, especially from his older sister, Hailee. Befriended by a band of young witches, Archibald Finch must quickly adapt to survive in Lemurea, where a battle born in the Middle Ages is still unfolding. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. History, magic, and adventure collide in this riveting middle-grade fantasy novel about an unusual boy who unlocks an ancient relic-and with it, a forgotten world. Archibald Finch and the Lost Witches audiobook written by Michel Guyon. ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, her alcoholic mom reappears after seven years with her boyfriend. The two children have been living with the grandmother for a long time. The main character, Naomi has a strong bond with her disabled brother and grandmother. I wanted to keep finding out what was going to happen with Naomi. ![]() Wow! This book was intense and a lot of things were happening with the characters. Take THAT, Skyla!! She's one brave little girl, is Naomi Leon-"a mouse with a lioness' voice." I want to be like her :-)Īlso, can I just say I love Santiago? Like, SO MUCH? Because I do. ![]() At the very end, in the courtroom scene, where Naomi stands up in front of everyone and basically tells her mother she's had enough, I was internally screaming "YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!" Loved that part so much. It's such a beautiful story, too, because it's all about a child (Naomi) who suffers from anxiety and confidence issues due to her AWFUL mother's neglectful/abusive treatment of her, and how she eventually finds the strength to overcome those fears and speak up for herself, loud and clear. Everything that scares Naomi, scares you and everything that makes her happy, makes you happy too. You feel like you're ten years old again when you're reading it, honestly. ![]() This book is fantastic, the way it gives a window into a young child's mind and lets you truly SEE everything as it appears to her perspective. You guys know how much I enjoyed-no, ADORED-"Echo" a month or so ago? Well, "Becoming Naomi Leon" is every bit as good. Apparently, I have a new favorite author: ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() A Phrygian named Quintus, for example, “abandoned his salvation” when presented with the choice of renouncing Christ or being killed by wild beasts in the arena. Some early Christians apostatized when faced with pressure from the state. Of course, back when Christianity was young, oppositional, and persecuted, the church kept its eye on the problem of apostasy. It is hard to imagine a Unitarian-Universalist apostate. ![]() To leave some religious groups is to apostatize, while to leave other groups-notably mainline Christian groups-is simply to float away. ![]() In the United States, with our promiscuous spiritual questing, many of us are never exclusively in one religion enough to one day find ourselves out of it. To make a true apostate you need a religious community that has, among other things, obvious insiders and outsiders. Haggis is now America’s leading apostate, and it is not surprising that this role came to a Scientologist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As we follow their occasionally intertwining stories, we also follow Tunde (Toheeb Jimoh, known for portraying the sweet-natured Sam from Ted Lasso), a Nigerian journalist documenting the emergence of the power around the world. From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, The Power is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an. Roxy craves acceptance from her father, a British crime lord, and Tatiana is the first lady of the fictional nation of Carpathia, the human trafficking capital of the world. Allie is a girl in the American foster care system, who runs away after her foster father tries to rape her. Margot is the mayor of Seattle Jos is her disgruntled daughter. The story follows five women who develop the power: Jos (Auliʻi Cravalho), Margot (Toni Collette), Allie (Halle Bush), Roxy (Ria Zmitrowicz), and Tatiana (Zrinka Cvitešić). ![]() ![]() Like the novel, the new series is a gripping, addictive drama-and it addresses a glaring problem in the book. They soon learn that they can activate the power in older women, and the power quickly becomes a global phenomenon. In Amazon Studios’ The Power, based on the novel by Naomi Alderman, teen girls suddenly start developing a new organ called a skein, which gives them the power to shoot electricity from any part of their body. ![]() ![]() And his parents, who created Nainoa in a truck bed beneath the moon and salted clouds, see in him a great promise to restore that which was violently rent away. His younger sister, supremely intelligent in engineering and hula, carves hers from the arcs and oscillations of the world. ![]() Nainoa’s older brother, sick with envy, carves an identity for himself from the asphalt, wood, chain and nylon of the basketball court, rising and striking like a cobra. Through him Hawaii runs through him the sick are healed through him each family member views themselves like shattered rainbows through his prism. Conceived under the march of ghosts, middle child Nainoa is bestowed with the breath of the gods after he falls off a boat and is rescued by a shark. The novel follows the Flores family, whose members span the Big Island to the West Coast. It’s innervated not by magic but by essence-the spirit of a lost island buried not by the Pacific or a volcano but a civilization that’s never satisfied. Sharks in the Time of Saviors does not begin literally with this mythological birth, but it blooms from there, extends, suffuses. ![]() Kawai Strong Washburn’s debut novel reads like it was delivered by a shark from the sea, all blood, salt, cartilage and divinity. ![]() ![]() ![]() "What we are finding will revolutionize how we view periods like the Neolithic in the Middle East. ![]() The researchers found the dog's bones in a burial site that is one of the earliest monumental tombs identified in the Arabian Peninsula, roughly contemporary with such tombs already dated further north in the Levant.Įvidence shows the earliest use of the tomb was circa 4300 BCE and received burials for at least 600 years during the Neolithic-Chalcolithic era - an indication that the inhabitants may have had a shared memory of people, places and the connection between them. The discovery came from one of the projects in the large-scale archaeological surveys and excavations of the region commissioned by the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU). ![]() ![]() ![]() many fine examples of heady invective without parallel in our time." American Scientist"Hellman has assembled a series of entertaining tales. I was excited by this book and enthusiastically recommend it to general as well as scientific audiences." New ScientistGreat Feuds in Science"Unusual insight into the development of science. And when it comes to describing the battle, Hal Hellman is a master." Professor Dirk van Dalen, Philosophy Department, Utrecht UniversityGreat Feuds in Technology"There's nothing like a good feud to grab your attention. ![]() But Hellman's stories also show how scientific fights bring out sharper formulations and better arguments." The main characters are as excitable and touchy as the next man. Praise for Hal HellmanGreat Feuds in Mathematics"Those who think that mathematicians are cold, mechanical proving machines will do well to read Hellman's book on conflicts in mathematics. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Rundell reminds us, Donne’s creative pilgrimage was less a stark shift from one mode to another than a blossoming of creative genius long present.Ĭertainly, Donne the preacher was a singular master of gripping, knotty language where faith, love, and death - always, for him, the ground of human existence - tangle in a three-way cage match of late-Renaissance paradox. But this foreshortened angle is more conveniently biographical than artistic, and it’s misleading. To be sure, the historical Donne is a dazzlingly ironic love poet, a contemporary of Shakespeare and Jonson who - at age 41 - seemed to shift gears abruptly, becoming a sermonizing priest and writer of the celebrated Holy Sonnets. ![]() The author sets out to overturn the narrow angle on Donne that many of us have picked up like a subtle classroom virus. ![]() Humble because John Donne’s life and work lie on a path well-trodden by scholars flashy because Rundell is a playful, incandescent stylist who brings scintillating insight to her subject. Super-Infinite is both humble and flashy. ![]() In this new critical biography, Katherine Rundell brings us a fresh take on the poems, prose, and protean identities of a 17th-century master of the English language. ![]() |